Articles
Indian National Movement
Anti-Colonial Movement gave rise to a feeling of Nationalism. In 1885 Indian National Congress was founded by A.O. Hume. Foremost objective of this organization was to create the consciousness among the people of belonging to a single nation.
Read more …Resistance to British Rule
Exploitation of natural and human resources by British led to rise of Popular Resistance Movements mainly by Peasants, Tribals and Sainiks. The most important Popular Resistance to the British rule during the 19th century was the revolt of 1857. There was a sense of self confidence that gave an impact to National Awakening.
Read more …Impact of British Rule on India
British Rule had a tremendous effect on Indian society, economy and culture. It also gave rise to a sense of nationhood and a spirit of Nationalism arose which resulted in National Awakening and a feeling of revolt against Britishers.
Read more …Medieval Indian Civilization
The rulers who ruled substantial parts of the North India between AD 1200 to AD 1526 were termed as Sultans and the period of their rule was known as the Delhi Sultanate. These were the Mamluks who were popularly known as the slave dynasty, the Khaljis, the Tughlaqs, the Sayyids and the Lodis.
Read more …Ancient India
History is the study of past events. It helps us to understand those processes that enabled the early humans to successfully conquer their environment and develop the present-day civilization. It is an analysis of society, economy and cultural trends over a long period as reflected in available sources.
Read more …Indian Economy
The story of Indian economy has two distinct phases. One, the economy during British period and two, the economy after independence.
Read more …Money, Banking and Insurance
Before money was invented people used to exchange goods for goods which was called barter system. There were many problems of barter system such as absence of a common measure of value, lack of double coincidence of wants, lack of space to store goods to exchange them for other goods etc. This prompted human society to discover money.
Read more …Demand, Supply, Price and Market
Demand for a commodity refers to the quantity of the commodity that a buyer is willing to buy at given price at given time. Individual demand is the quantity of a commodity that an individual buyer is willing to buy at the given price at given time.
Read more …Production, Cost and Revenue
Production process is the process of combining inputs, utilising their services and making production of goods and services. The entrepreneur organizes the production activities for which he earns profit or bears loss.
Read more …Central Problems of Economy
The issue of choice arises, because a) the resources are scarce and b) the resources can be put to many alternative uses.
Read more …Types of Economy
Economy is a system of socially and legally acceptable ways by which people get a living. An economy is also looked at as a system of cooperation for the satisfaction of human wants.
Read more …Introduction to Economics
Economics as a subject matter of social science has been treated as a science of (a) Wealth, (b) Welfare, (c) Scarcity and Choice (d) Growth and Development and (e) Sustainable Development.
Read more …Weather and Climate
The temperature, atmospheric pressure, winds and precipitation are main elements of weather have an important effect on our lives. For example the houses we construct, the clothes we wear and the food we prefer mainly depend on weather and climatic conditions.
Read more …Pressure and Winds
Air has weights and it exerts pressure which varies from place to place. These variations are specified ion pressure belts. The pressure at different location of the world also varies in different seasons. This variation causes the movement of air called winds.
Read more …Atmosphere
Earth is a unique planet because the life is found only on this planet because of availability of water and air. The air is a mixture of several gases. The air encompasses the earth from all sides called the atmosphere.
Read more …Hydrosphere: Water on the Earth
All living organisms on the earth depend on water. About 71% of the earth's surface is covered by water. The earth is the only known planet in the solar system with abundant water.
Read more …Landforms on Earth's Surface
A landform is a feature on the Earth's surface that is part of the terrain. Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the major types of landforms.
Read more …Interior of the Earth
The earth is sphere in shape and its visible features can be experienced on the surface. But, huge size of earth, increasing temperature and pressure limited the direct observations. The earth has three concentric layers NIFE, SIMA and SIAL.
Read more …Introduction to Probability
Probability is that branch of Mathematics which deals with the measure of uncertainty in various phenomenon that gives several results or outcomes instead of a particular one.
Read more …Measures of Central Tendency
Central Tendency: A Single quantity which enables us to know the average characteristics of the data under consideration. Use of central tendency is a technique to analyse the data.
Read more …Data and Representation
Statistics is a branch of Mathematics which deals with collection, presentation, analysis, interpretation of data and drawing inferences and conclusions there from.
Read more …Introduction to Trigonometry
Trigonometry is that branch of Mathematics which deals with the measurement of the sides and the angles of a triangle and the problems related to angles.
Read more …Surface Areas and Volumes of Solid Figures
Solid figures are three-dimensional figures that include cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere and hemisphere.
Read more …Perimeters and Areas of Plane Figures
Mensuration is the part of geometry concerned with ascertaining lengths, areas, and volumes. Perimeter is the distance around a closed figure while area is the part of plane or region occupied by the closed figure.
Read more …Coordinate Geometry
The position of a point in a plane is fixed w.r.t. to its distances from two axes of reference, which are usually drawn by the two graduated number lines XOX' and YOY', at right angles to each other at O.
Read more …Circles
A circle is a collection of all points in a plane which are at a constant distance from a fixed point. The fixed point is called the centre of the circle.
Read more …Triangles
Triangle is the simplest polygon of all the closed figures formed in a plane by three line segments. It is a closed figure formed by three line segments having six elements - three angles (i) ∠ABC or ∠B (ii) ∠ACB or ∠C (iii) ∠CAB or ∠A and three sides - (iv) AB (v) BC (vi) CA.
Read more …Quadrilaterals
If A, B, C and D are four points in a plane such that no three of them are collinear and the line segments AB, BC, CD and DA do not intersect except at their end points, then the closed figure made up of these four line segments is called a quadrilateral with vertices A, B, C and D.
Read more …Concurrent Lines in Triangle
Two lines in a plane can either be parallel or intersecting. Three lines in a plane may (i) be parallel to each other (ii) intersect each other in exactly one point (iii) intersect each other in two points (iv) intersect each other at most in three points.
Read more …Lines and Angles
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.
Read more …Percentage and Applications
A fraction whose denominator is 100 is read as percent, for example 23/100 is read as twenty three percent or 23%. The symbol % is used for the term percent.
Read more …Arithmetic Progressions
A pattern in which each term except the first is obtained by adding a fixed number (positive or negative) to the previous term is called an Arithmetic Progression (A.P.).
Read more …Quadratic Equations
A polynomial of degree two is called a quadratic polynomial. When a quadratic polynomial is equated to zero, it is called a quadratic equation.
Read more …Linear Equations
The value of an algebraic expression depends on the values of the variables involved it. A polynomial in one variable whose degree is one is called a linear polynomial in one variable. When two expressions are separated by an equality sign, it is called an equation.
Read more …Algebraic Expressions & Polynomials
Expressions, involving arithmetical numbers, variables and symbols of operations are called algebraic expressions. An algebraic expression is a combination of numbers, variables and arithmetical operations.
Read more …Exponents and Radicals
If a is a rational number, multiplied by itself m times, it is written as am. Here, a is called the base and m is called the exponent.
Read more …Number Systems
Numbers are classified as natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers and irrational numbers. Rational and Irrational numbers together constitute the system of real numbers.
Read more …Soil Resources
Soil is defined as upper layer of the earth composed of loose surface material. The soils of India are broadly divided into six groups. They are alluvial, regur or black, red, laterite, desert and mountain soils.
Read more …Minerals, Energy and Industries
Mineral and power resources play an important role in the industrial development of a nation. They provide the industrial raw materials and fuel.
Read more …Transport and Communication
Transport and Communication is the life line of the country. The major role of transport is to facilitate trade and commerce by carrying goods, movement of people from one place to another. The communication keeps on updating information about the world's events. It helps in establishing the social, cultural and economic relationships.
Read more …Population
The total number of human heads is considered to be the population of a country. It is counted every ten years in India. Qualified, well developed, productive and healthy human head is the asset for the country.
Read more …Agriculture in India
India is said to be the land of farmers and these farmers are mostly living in the rural India. They are practising farming and are helping the country. Hence, the agriculture in the country is very important.
Read more …Biodiversity in India
The diversity of plants and animal provide us food, fuel, medicine, shelter and other essentials without which we cannot live. These species have evolved over thousands of years. This rich diversity is being lost at an alarming rate due to human activities.
Read more …Climate of India
India has monsoon type of climate. The word monsoon refers to the seasonal reversal of the wind direction in a year. Due to this, India has four prominent seasons - cold weather season, hot weather season, advancing southwest monsoon season and post or retreating monsoon season.
Read more …Challenges to Indian Democracy
India is called the largest democracy in the world. It is democratic because elections take place at regular intervals at different levels.
Read more …People's Participation in Democratic Process
In a Democracy, people's participation is very important. People, participate to elect their representatives by voting in elections. Discussing the working of the government, public debates, newspaper’s editorials, protest demonstrations, public meetings working for a political party and standing as a candidate are all examples of people's participation.
Read more …Political Parties and Pressure Groups
A political party is an organised group of citizens who have similar political views and who by acting as a unit try to control the government to translate their policies into practice.
Read more …Governance at Union Level
The Constitution of India has made alternate provision for the structure and functioning of all the three branches of the government i.e. executive, legislature and judiciary.
Read more …NCERT Chapter Summary: Biomolecules (Class 12)
Although there is a bewildering diversity of living organisms, their chemical composition and metabolic reactions appear to be remarkably similar. The elemental composition of living tissues and non-living matter appear also to be similar when analysed qualitatively. However, a closer examination reveals that the relative abundance of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen is higher in living systems when compared to inanimate matter.
Read more …NCERT Chapter Summary: Nuclei
An atom has a nucleus. The nucleus is positively charged. The radius of the nucleus is smaller than the radius of an atom by a factor of 104. More than 99.9% mass of the atom is concentrated in the nucleus.
Read more …Page 1 of 7